Cuisine & Philosophy

Cuisine & Philosophy

COOKING IS CONFIDENTIAL

It happens before sharing. It happens when you don’t know each other. It happens when suddently you find that your words are flowing out from your mouth without you planned
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Cuisine & Philosophy

INFORMED PALATE

http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2018/02/if-you-really-want-to-learn-how-to-cook.html in date  February 27, 2018 In the post of the link above is the experience of a “seafood” evening: an endless array of seafood. This is how you learn
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Cuisine & Philosophy

LA FINANZA SOSTENIBILE…

…non esiste. Potrebbe esistere l’economia sostenibile, cioè la produzione di beni e servizi derivati da un lavoro – sul quale la nostra Repubblica dovrebbe essere basata – che porta a
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COOKING WILL SAVE THE WORLD

It’s not exactly what Dostoyevsky wrote, it’s true. But it is also true that the cuisine, indeed the CUISINE is beauty. The dishes of the chefs photographed in glossy magazines
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AN OLD POST, STILL CURRENT

http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2016/02/mi-rincuoro-quando.html I repeat it faithfully: I CHEER UP WHEN…..  February 09, 2016 …. I see (good) completed projects. When I know companies that build a healthy and fair economy with
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NO BALANCES ONLY PROJECTS

2022 hasn’t been a year of “writing”, which is the only thing I regret about it. It has been, instead, a year of action. Lot of action. Maybe because the
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CLAY, GRANITE, EARTH

Since elementary school, we have been taught that there are three worlds: mineral, vegetable, animal. We were told that the vegetable and animal worlds are alive, have life inside and
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WHEN BLACK DOESN’T BLACKEN

In 1985, when we started our restaurant, the menu was very traditional, except for some desserts I introduced. When I say “traditional” I mean with the typical dishes served in
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TO BE A CHEF YOU’D BETTER HAVE BEEN A WAITER FIRST

Cook, chef, cooking teacher are different jobs. Each of them has a peculiar aim: the cook cooks and often the cook is better than the chef at that; the chef
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Marcella Ansaldo

Native of Giglio Island, Marcella has founded and directs the school GiglioCooking in Florence, with simpathy, passion and energy.